Chapter 2
What with the stops they had to make before they got home, Garrett got pretty good at helping Dan in and out of the pickup. The folding wheelchair he’d rented did yeoman service and made it possible, although not easy. It was almost dark when they pulled up in the drive of the gracious old Victorian house in Durango.
Garrett still felt a pang to drive up and know there was no one to come out to greet him. Besides him and Mandy, only memories lived there now. At least this time he didn’t make the return alone. Even if Dan Boudreaux might not stay for more than a few weeks, for a while, Garrett would not be alone. Even Mandy, dear as she was, could not completely make up for the loss of human companionship. Raising the two kids had left him little time to pursue a social life and
